00:00The next step would be to extract material right there and use it where it's cheaper to bring it
00:06up, for example on the moon. Classic concepts like the mass driver, an electromagnetic catapult
00:13that launches material from the moon's surface into orbit without a rocket, date back to the
00:181970s and to physicist Jared O'Neill, and for a long time were considered pure fantasy.
00:25In a world where you want to build gigawatt-sized computing clusters in space, these ideas suddenly
00:31start to make sense again. SpaceX isn't building anything like that today, that has to be made clear.
00:36But the direction the idea of orbital data centers points in leads exactly there,
00:42to an industry that is no longer based on Earth. They've already put this vision into a snappy animation.
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